Building custom RPM but the package is empty?

Question

I am trying to build an rpm for a compiled version of apache. I want the rpm to build it in /opt/apache.... I am able to create the RPM file itself but when I do a rpm -qpl on the file it shows up as empty.

Here is my spec file:

Name:           custom-http
Version:        2.2.25
Release:        1%{?dist}
Summary:        A custom build of Apache

License:        NA
URL:            http://x.x.x.x:/repo2
Source0:        http://x.x.x.x:/repo2/httpd-2.2.25.tar.gz

BuildRequires:  xfce4-dev-tools apr-util openssl-devel

%description
Custom compiled version of Apache version 2.2.25

%prep
%setup -n httpd-2.2.25

%build
./configure --disable-rpaths --with-included-apr --enable-mods-shared=all --with-mpm=prefork --enable-ssl --prefix=/opt/apache --enable-so

make %{?_smp_mflags}

%install
make install

%clean

%files

%doc

%changelog
* Thu Jan 30 2014 name <email address>
- First attempt

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Answer 1

First, you need to install the files to the buildroot when doing make install, since you don't want the files to be installed in the actual filesystem root when building the package. This means that you have to replace the make install with make install DESTDIR=%{buildroot}, which you can also write simply as %make_install (to see what a macro expands to, you can do rpm -E <macro>, i.e.

$ rpm -E %make_install
/usr/bin/make install DESTDIR=$HOME/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.x86_64

).

Then, as Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams said, you will need to populate the %files section. To find out what you have to write there, just do a build from the tarball, install it in some temporary directory (using DESTDIR when calling make install), and then list the installed files. Read i.e. [1] for more on this.

Other notes:

• %doc actually belongs to the %files section (judging from the extra spacing you added around %doc, it is not clear whether you are aware of this).
• %clean is not necessary anymore if you are targeting a recent rpm distro (i.e. Fedora > F13, RHEL >= 6).

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package#.25files_section

Answer 2

If you continue down whatever it is you're using to learn how to create RPMs, it will talk about populating %files. Read that part.